Goblins

Forbidden Psalm has Goblins in it. Sock-stealing goblins to be exact. I painted these GW Grotz a little while ago but only just got around to photographing them. I started off a little basic, and used a field grey for the skin base, to try to keep it low saturation.

Much like the Razormouth, I was going to try to paint these effectively monochrome. It didn't come out as I'd hoped, so I quickly started adding some low-key colors. The idea was a lot of black, with intense yet small highlights.

I tried doing plain metal shields, but they looked really dull. Tinting the upper and lower halves with green and purple ink respectively, thinned with Lahmian medium to make a subtle glaze.

This looked so good to me that I went in and did some subtle green and purple spot glazing on other areas to tie it all together. The eyes are just plain white with a blob of purple ink glaze once dry.

I didn't yet have any enamel wash at this stage, so these Grotz are a little bit cleaner than my more recent work, but they are quite dark and had more painstaking Army painter pin washes.